#select

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#call #demands #give #headline #how

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#artist #artists #because #best #dislike

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#action #agenda #course #devious #discussion

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#company #detain #dismiss #i #i can

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#discover #environmental #genome #important #interactions

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#appears #because #colour #light #reflection

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite. ↗

— Eric Liu

#action #affirmative #affirmative action #arguing #cal

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#ideas #natural #natural selection #ones #selection

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#determined #did #evolution #face #fact

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#hear #hearing #humans #memory #only